Comparison

Meditation Timer Stillness vs Mokurai

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Meditation Timer Stillness

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Meditation Timer Stillness is a distraction-free meditation timer and tracker with gentle bells, session history, and practice insight for beginner or advanced practices. It is built for people who do not need guided meditations, voice instructions, social features, streak pressure, or unnecessary clutter. Just set your time, choose gentle bells, begin your session, and return to silence. The basic meditation timer remains free. Use Stillness for: • Silent meditation • Mindfulness practice • Vipassana-style sitting • Zen practice • Breath awareness • Focus sessions • Quiet reflection • Daily sitting practice Core features: • Simple meditation timer • Gentle start, interval, and end bells • Bell sounds can be silenced • Adjustable session duration • Optional interval bells • Calm, minimal interface • Designed for silent practice • No ads • No social features • No guided content Premium unlocks: • Saved meditation sessions • Session history with edit and delete • Session notes — personal reflections attached to every session • Reflection tags — one-tap mood log (Deep · Calm · Neutral · Restless · Difficult) • Closing and background ambience sounds (Rain · Birdsong · Forest · Ocean · Wind · Bell only) • Meditation insights • Saved app settings Stillness is designed to feel like a quiet tool, not a noisy platform. Open the app, set your timer, and sit. Whether you meditate for 5 minutes or 60 minutes, Stillness helps you keep the structure of your practice while leaving the practice itself undisturbed. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://meditationtracker.replit.app/privacy

About

Mokurai

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Mokurai — "silent thunder" — is a focused meditation timer designed in the Sanbo Zen tradition. It does one thing: helps you sit, with the bells that mark the rhythm of practice. Plan a session in seconds. Choose the number of rounds, your zazen length, and kinhin (walking meditation) — between rounds as usual, or opening and closing the sitting. Pick from six authentic bell sounds — keisu, rin, inkin, meditation, temple, and Tibetan — and two wooden han clappers used to time kinhin. Then make it match how your sangha actually practises. Set how many strikes open zazen, how many close it before kinhin, and how many end the sitting. Set every pause in between — standing after the closing gongs, walking back to your seat, settling before the next round — down to the second. Mokurai ships with the Sanbo Zen pattern and will return to it whenever you want. Sitting where someone else rings the real bell? Switch the signal to vibration. The phone stays silent and the timekeeper feels each cue — three pulses for a bell, one for the han — so nothing but the real keisu is heard in the room. A lights-out mode dims the screen for sitting in a dark zendo — a single tap, and the only thing left is the bell. The timer runs quietly in the background, so you can lock your phone or place it face-down and just sit. Your setup is remembered, so the next sit starts where the last one left off. Your session history is recorded locally so you can see the consistency of your practice over weeks and months. No accounts, no logins, no ads, no trackers, no analytics. Nothing leaves your device. Just a timer, bells, and your sit. Features: • Rounds, zazen length, and kinhin — between rounds, or opening and closing the sitting • Set the bell counts to your lineage: opening zazen, closing before kinhin, ending the sitting • Every pause adjustable, down to the second — with the Sanbo Zen defaults one tap away • Six bell sounds and two han clappers rooted in real practice traditions • Vibration-only mode for retreats, when someone else rings the real bell • Lights-out mode for sitting in a dark zendo • Local session history — see your practice over time • Background audio so bells play even when the screen is locked • Your setup remembered between sits • Dark, distraction-free interface • No tracking, no accounts, no data collection For sitters at any level — beginning, returning, or longstanding.

Screenshots

Meditation Timer Stillness4 screens
Mokurai4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Mokurai at none against Meditation Timer Stillness's 1. On price, update cadence, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Meditation Timer Stillness sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $1.99 per month. Mokurai asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Meditation Timer Stillness ships an update every 3 weeks, Mokurai fortnightly. Both last shipped on November 5, 2026.

Scorecard1 real difference · 5 level
Meditation Timer Stillness versus Mokurai: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMeditation Timer StillnessMokurai
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.1
Further details — not scored
Size54 MB24 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJANOS KEREKESSooties LLC

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Meditation Timer Stillness

Subscriptions1
  • Premium$1.991 Month
None

Mokurai

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Meditation Timer Stillness free?
Meditation Timer Stillness is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Mokurai free?
Mokurai is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Meditation Timer Stillness or Mokurai have ads?
Neither Meditation Timer Stillness nor Mokurai shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Meditation Timer Stillness or Mokurai?
Meditation Timer Stillness ships an update every 3 weeks, and Mokurai fortnightly. Most recently, Meditation Timer Stillness was updated on November 5, 2026 and Mokurai on November 5, 2026.

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